Last week, the New York Times wrote about the end of Manhattan’s bookstore culture as the shops follow the city’s literary scene into the outer boroughs. Now Dustin Kurtz over at MobyLives raises the possibility that bookstores are responsible for the gentrification of their new neighborhoods, asking three bookstore owners in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods to weigh in. Lexi Beach of Astoria Bookshop offered this:
Nobody seems to want to write about how the chains/superstores are irrelevant, while indies with community ties are thriving.
